Terrorists planning summer attack....right on schedule

[mopaul]

WASHINGTON(AP) U.S. officials have obtained new intelligence deemed highly credible indicating al-Qaida or other terrorists are in the United States and preparing to launch a major attack this summer, The Associated Press has learned.

The intelligence does not include a time, place or method of attack but is among the most disturbing received by the government since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a senior federal counterterrorism official who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Tuesday.

Of most concern, the official said, is that terrorists may possess and use a chemical, biological or radiological weapon that could cause much more damage and casualties than a conventional bomb.

"There is clearly a steady drumbeat of information that they are going to attack and hit us hard," said the official, who described the intelligence as highly credible.

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they keep warning us, and guaranteeing a new attack before the election. we really should brace ourselves, they ain't foolin'.

[Wonk]

1. Link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040525/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_threat_3

[LeinesRed]

2. also mentions that our little fiasco in Iraq

has emboldened the terror. Just wonderful. But wait, we have Nat'l Guard and Reserves to protect us...oh nevermind.

[ithacan]

3. They are desperately trying to ensure that Bush wins in November

and the "they" I am referring to is the terrorists...

Nothing better for terrorists than a totally incompetent administration in Washington.

Bush has served the interests of the terrorists better than almost anyone else!

[Auntie Bush]

8. They want Bush* because he helps them recruit terrorists.

[Old and In the Way]

14. And Bush needs terrorists to make him a wartime pResident.

Sort of a mutually dysfunctional, co-enabling relationship.

Funny that the only 2 groups that seem to benefit from the WOT is Al Qaeda and the Bush Administration.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. The poll numbers after W's speech last night

must have really sucked.

[dflprincess]

5. I find it very hard to believe that IF there's that much "chatter"

they wouldn't have some idea of the when, where and how.

Oh hell, I find it hard to believe that this is anything more that BushCo fear mongering and, if something does happen, I won't believe it's anyone but Bush who did it.

[Old and In the Way]

15. Bizarre, isn't it?

We get this nebulous chatter that never has the where, when, or how. So what makes it credible? And if their sources are credible to know an attack is planned, why don't they know any details?

If we did know the when, where, and how....why wouldn't they do their job quietly and stop it? Seems that would make a great 'hero' moment for Bush.

I'd dearly love to see a chart with Al Qaeda threats/color changes and the political misfortunes of Dimson correlated. I think the timing would be most enlightening.

[punpirate]

6. Anyway one looks at it, it's a serious subject...

but, dammit, MoP, that graphic cracks me up. :thumbsup:

[Raster]

7. love your Flash sig lines, always VERY clever...

[Q]

9. We don't know where...we don't know when...we don't know how...

...but UNNAMED Bush* operatives (officials) say that UNNAMED terrorists might POSSIBLY be PLANNING a major ATTACK on US soil this summer (to influence the election and make Demigod Bush* look bad).

- Just last year Bush* operatives (officials) smirked when they admitted that they were using terror alerts to teach the Democrats a 'lesson' for complaining.

- It's over, folks. The great experiment of government of, by and for the people is over. Our only option now is to rebuild and elect representatives that still believe in the people and their Constitution.

[maggrwaggr]

20. I agree 100%. This is so obviously a ploy

deliberately leaked by an anonymous source, with no information except to be afraid, very afraid.

Credible my ASS.

If it were credible there'd be some details.

Details matter.

[madrchsod]

10. you mean the latest arrest of a couple of

guys who were white? robbing a bank in tulsa? or maybe the guy in rockford ,il who had a list of anti gun people and liberal politicians and a bunch of guns and large quantity of gun powder. anyone know of anymore "unreported" white guys ready to go on a terror attack? oh ya the guy in texas that had a whole alot of shit that could have killed thousands?? oh i forgot, those guys were white.

[JayS]

16. We busted a Pakistani the other day, here illegally, that was...

...trying to buy silencers and detonators. There have been other incidents here as well.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. Gangster "patriots", running America as a protection racket.

They can't MIHOP indefinitely. Eventually, the pattern recognition will become too great for the most blinkered Moran to ignore.

[Solomon]

12. The "attack" will be what they will use to explain the theft of votes

by the machines. They will say that the "attack" made americans vote for Bush.

[Davis_X_Machina]

13. Action Hero George....

...relying on information obtainable only by torturing an Abu Ghraib prisoner, cuts the correct wire seconds before the device, planted deep in the bowels of the Fleet Center in Boston was to have gone off.

The Democrats above, in gratitude for their rescue from certain death at the hands of swarthy pagans, give Action George the Democratic nomination by acclamation, making America's Popular Wartime President ^tm the first man ever to capture the nomination from both major parties.

[neebob]

18. No

He deflects the explosion with his massive, steel-reinforced package.

[mopaul]

21. we are through the looking glass

and i would put nothing past these nazis

[VolcanoJen]

17. Amazing the way terrorists let us know what they're planning...

... and we all know how stellar our intelligence systems are in America.

:eyes:

Fear fear terror terror terror freedom fear hate terror.

I've had about enough... and this obvious political ploy to rescue the President from plummeting poll numbers by putting the fear of God into Americans is the most disgusting thing I've ever witnessed in government.

:puke:

[elf]

19. Fascist regimes always work with the fear factor!!!!!!!!!!!

[dusty64]

22. Funny how it managed to

knock the mounting evidence that Torturegate originated right from the very top. Its funny how that always seems to happen, such coincidences.

[devinsgram]

23. Let me see, how many does that make now in the last year?

Did they ever hear the story about the kid who cried wolf too many times? Well, all they've done now is make it so no one ever listens to them. Now if one comes along no one will be ready. If it happens * and company will definetly get the blame for it